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Have you ever noticed how much you say “sorry” in your daily life? There’s a big buzz about a new Pantene ad in the US which calls attention to how the apology is too often used by women as a crutch and a way to […]

We are preparing to LEAP! The school holidays start today. And at the end of them lies a whole new horizon. With three children at school, our own creative partnership writing/ editing/ publishing/ creative mentoring with Lucent Word becomes our full reality. My subconscious has […]

It is only after I write my posts that I really GET what they are about. Same goes with my books. When you’re writing intuitively, from the guts, it can be like moving through a dark wood, blindfolded – you can’t see where you are […]

Those who know me know my passion for baking… and eating cake. It is no mistake that I earned the soubriquet “The Queen of Puddings” from a good friend… and even started a baking blog of the same name! But now cake is unfortunately the […]

I have spent the past decade unlearning who I was. You know me as a writer who writes books and blog posts about women and creativity and taboo from personal experience. I now write in my mother tongue… a strange mish mash of intuitive poetry, […]

From as young as I remember there was circus. Every summer with in Ireland the traveling circuses visited our area, and we would go. My father, who I only got for weeks each year, whose presence was like the sun to me, would offer his […]

Our family’s favourite game at the moment is the Game of Life. That ’80s classic board game, which I in turn loved as a child. It’s a great allegory for this game… we call life. We take it all so seriously. But it is just […]

WELCOME!!!!!! Like my new place? Fancy, innit?! I’m not quite sure when I decided that Dreaming Aloud needed to be reborn… It wasn’t in my year planner at the end of December 2013! Not at all. But by the end of January 2014 it was […]